Artificial-stone fence-post.



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G. & H. BRINK. A ARTIFICIAL STONE FENCE POST.

APPLICATION FILED APB.. 17,1906.

www Il. l KW 7 gf io through the post are strengthening-wires i bers GERRFJ BRINK AND HERMAN BRINK, OF HUDSGNVILLE, MICHlGAN.

ARTIFICIAL-STONE FENCE-POST.

Speeicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 11, 1906.

Application tiled April 17.1906. Serial Nn. 312.282.

'To all wiz/0m, it may concern:

Be it known that we, GERRET BRINK and HERMAN BRINK, citizens of the United States, residing at Hudsonville, in the county of Ottawa and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Artificial- Stone Fence-Posts, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to artificial-stone fence-posts; and its primary object is to provide a novel and highly useful means for securing the line-wires of a fence to the post.

A further obj ect of the invention is to provide line-wire-attaching means which may be applied readily and quickly, which is simple and durable, and which may be manufactured and sold at a comparatively low cost.

Vith the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction,

combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Y Figure l is a perspective view of a fence- 5 post, illustrating the manner in which the line-wires are secured to the post by our improved line-wire-attaching means. Fig, 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view through thepost. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional o view of a fragmentary portion of -the fencepost, and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings by referencenumerals, l designates a fence-post which is 5 constructed of any plastic material suitable for the purpose and which is of a size and shape to best adapt it to answer the requirements demanded of a suitable fence-post.

Embedded in and extending longitudinally 2) which are arranged at points adjacent the corners of the post and which are adapted to prevent injury to the post.

3 designates line-wire-supporting memwhich also are embedded in the post and which are constructed of single strands of wire bent upon themselves into U shape, as fully disclosed in Fig. 4 of the drawings. The looped ends of the supporting members 3 ex- 5o tend beyond the outer face of the post l, and

the line-wires 4 of a fence are positioned upon and secured to the projecting ends of the members 3,

5 designates the line-wire-attaehing members, which also are constructed of single strands of wire bent into U shape, as fully disclosed in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The attaching members 5 are applied to straddle the line-wires el and to position their vertical portions 6 between the line-wires and the face of the post and their vertical portions 7 between the closed ends of the supporting members 3 and the line-wires, as is fully illustrated in Fig. 3 Aof the drawings. After the attaching members have been thus applied those portions of their vertical members 7 which extend below the supporting members 3 are turned upwardly over the closed ends of the members 3 and engaged with the face of the post l, thus securely locking the attaching members 5 in applied position and in turn securing the line-wires 4L in position upon the post.

It should be apparent from the above description, taken in connection with the asline-wire-attaching means which has such connection with supporting members carried by the post and the line-wires that all liability of the attaching means becoming accidentally disengaged from the supporting members is obviated. It also should be apparent that the line-wire-attaching means is exceedingly cheap of construction, that it may be readily and uiclrly applied without 'the use of any specia tools, and that it may tively low cost.

Having fully described and illustrated our invention, what we claim isl. The combination with a fence-post, of a supporting member secured to the post, a line-wire supported by said member, and a U-shaped attaching member applied to straddle the wire and position one of its vertical portions between the post and the wire and its other vertical portion between the wire and the supporting member, that vertical portion positioned between the wire and the supporting member being bent upwardly to engage said supporting member to lock the attaching member in applied position.

2. The combination with a fence-post, of a U-shaped member secured to and having its closed end projected beyond the post, a linewire supported by said member, and a U- shaped attaching member applied to straddle the wire and osition one of its vertical portions within t ie supporting member and between the wire and the post and its other companying drawings, that we provide abe manufactured and sold at a comparavertical portion within the supporting mem- In testimony whereof `weetHX our signaber and between the wire and the closed end tures in presence of two Witnesses. of said supporting member, that Vertical por- GERRET BRINK.

tion positioned between the wire and said HERMAN BRINK.

closed end being bent upwardly to engage Witnesses: the supporting member and the post to look CHARLES LADEWIG, the attaching member in applied position. i HATTIE LADEWIG. 

